Learning from Creative People and Places
Creative People and Places launched in 2012 and is an intervention to inspire new ways of thinking about cultural engagement in local authority areas where the official statistics showed historically low levels of engagement. In 2021, a new set of 39 Creative People and Places consortia joined our National Portfolio for 2022-25 to help achieve Let’s Create.
Our aims for Creative People and Places
Our aims for Creative People and Places
Since 2012, members of the public have had over 12 million engagements with Creative People and Places.
We’ve worked to:
- Engage more people, from places of least engagement, to allow them to experience and be inspired by creativity and culture
- Allow communities to take the lead in shaping the local creativity and culture available to them
- Aspire for excellence while demonstrating the power of creativity and culture to enrich the lives of individuals and make positive changes in communities
- Learn from past experiences while experimenting
- Encourage partnerships across the subsidised, amateur and commercial sectors
Report
What have we learnt?
We commissioned Mark Robinson to bring together everything that’s been learnt through the Creative People and Places programme.
Mark is the founder of Thinking Practice and he works across the cultural sector in the UK and internationally as a writer, researcher, coach, strategist and facilitator.
His learning report investigates the history of the Creative People and Places programme and the key learnings, while providing opportunities to take inspiration and dive deeper into the topics.
Dive into the key learnings
How to use community in your programme.
How to identify specific organisations already active and rooted in everyday life and activity in a particular area
How to approach consortium working.
Overcoming the barriers of engagement.
Looking into the importance of leadership in the Creative People and Places programme.
Project delivery from Creative people and places.
Common elements found across the programme in artistic practice and excellence.
More learning
Here you can find all the research and evaluation produced about the Creative People and Places programme.
